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The parks were both crowded on this Good Friday afternoon/evening. The best crowds we have seen in quite a while, excluding Christmas week. Disneyland had a much denser crowd and longer waits, but DCA had a great showing. For example we grabbed a Soarin' fastpass around 3pm and it was not good till 9:25. There were new guidebook covers (well they started April 10th but I have not been there) featuring Playhouse Disney and Winnie the Pooh. People say the economy is in the dumps, but it sure did not show at DLR. The parks were crowded, World of Disney had lines of 5-10 people at every register we passed. Redd Rocketts had a line out the door around dinner time.

The resort had a new type of Fastpass, a Surprise one. We got one to Tough to Be a Bug when we picked up a Soarin Fastpass. I also saw they had them for Honey I Shrunk the Audience, guessing it was with Star Tours? I thought this was a great idea and a way to drive people to the attractions (think Indy should have a Tiki Room one). I saw many more people take notice of them, compared to the small messages the Fastpass Tickets always have. They really felt like they got something since it was entire ticket to use.

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Disneyland Items:

• Speaking of Redd Rocketts, $5.19 still seems high for a piece of cheese pizza. Out in toontown its $5.99 for a personal pizza and a salad. By the way, does anyone know if Redd Rocketts still does free refills, just curious?

• Great to see some entertainment out at Club Buzz in the evening. Did not care for the band, but many others seemed to. They were called the 80s All Stars.

• I overheard the best Disney myth/explaination I have ever heard. I was walking by Matterhorn, looking at the Subs lagoon, and overheard a boy ask his father, what's this (referring to the Matterhorn). His father correctly answered the Matterhorn, but went on to say that it was a bobsled ride built for the Olympics that were held here in Los Angeles. His wife then piped in, I never knew that, and they strolled away. I thought this was close, it is a bobsled ride, but it was built in 1959 and the Olympics in LA were in 1984 and were the summer games, not the winter ones...

• Pooh seemed to be going over well. The area was a mob scene and the standby line was 110 minutes. The store was nothing to write home about, but the candy portion of it was fun to visit.

• Got to ride in the caboose on the train, which was my first time in it. Kind of fun, a different perspective on things from back there. One major plus is the panded seats.

• The monorail queue was back along the sub lagoon and the area of the old sub queue was for the hotel people only.

DCA Items:

• Road Drive Em Buggies twice, still the slowest bumper cars I have ever seen, but anyway the point I wanted to make is the CMs working it were cool and were letting you stay on as many times as you wish. Also they turned all the lights off for a while, made it a little more fun.

• Still on the Drive Em Buggies, wish they would figure out a way to do a full size AstroBlaster like they have a DisneyQuest. It would be a fun addition, maybe in tomorrowland to help it out...

• Groove 66 and Road Trip both had several faces we did not recognize singing.

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